Certified Coach Training
A Four-Month Intensive Leading to Certification as a Field Coach

Certified Coach Training
Instructor: Philip Golabuk
Format: hour-long weekly phone bridge meetings for
four months (16 weeks) with unlimited email support
Prerequisites: Course study (may be met as co-requisite)
Requirements: Email service and a land line phone
Enrollment cap: 10
Tuition: $1500

Fall 2008 Schedule
13 September -  27 December, 6 PM Eastern | Saturdays


Executive and life coaching have enjoyed explosive growth over the past five years, as motivated individuals have discovered the value of having a consultant with whom they can work closely in addressing both professional and personal issues. Certified Coach Training (CCT) provides the opportunity to learn principles and practices adapted from Field training to help others shift from contradiction to alignment and identify and take next-steps for the enrichment of their lives in all staging areas.

This highly practical four-month curriculum will help you establish a strong personal foundation, enhancing clarity, confidence, and the ability to make creative and aligned choices. In addition, CCT leads to certification as a Field Center Certified Coach (FCCC). Upon successful completion, you’ll be recognized by the FIeld Center as an FCCC, qualified to begin your practice as a life coach with unique skills developed exclusively by the Field Center for this program.

How is Field Coaching Different from Traditional Life Coaching?
Field Coaching is based on Field training principles, the most important of which is that our reality corresponds to the choices we make, wittingly or unwittingly, about who we are and “how things are,” or what’s real. Consequently, it aims to shed light on these choices rather than on the quantifiable results that flow inevitably from them. So, for example, while traditional life coaching might focus on helping someone manage his or her time more efficiently, reduce or eliminate clutter, move up the career ladder faster, restore self-esteem, or be a better parent, Field Coaching examines the usually unexamined beliefs, assumptions, and conclusions that are creating and sustaining the need for such goals, for these beliefs, assumptions, and conclusions are the true cause of whatever situation needs improving. Once a better belief is in place, a better reality follows effortlessly and inevitably. Field Coaching, then, is ontological rather than psychological. It deals not just with making better choices (all life coaching does this much), but with making better choices about who we are and what’s real. As Field Coaching works with the deepest and most influential beliefs that we can hold—beliefs about identity and reality—results are typically quick, dramatic, and lasting.

How is Field Coaching Different from Facilitating?
Field Coaching is not Facilitating. Its aim is to shed light on unwitting beliefs relevant to a specific problem so that the client is in a better position to release the old, unwitting choice in favor of a new, better, deliberate, and more fulfilling one. Field Coaching is informational. Facilitating, on the other hand, provides a firsthand experience of a new and better identity, along with instructions for remaining in alignment with it. The aim is experiential. Both methods are educational; neither is therapeutic. A Field Coaching session takes 20-30 minutes, while a Facilitating session lasts 45-60 minutes. Those who are looking primarily to understand in a new way how they're playing a role in whatever problem has their attention are good candidates for Field Coaching. Facilitating is for those looking for a more thorough "rite of passage" experience.

Who Can Benefit from Field Center Coach Training?
Based on the unique principles of Field training, Field Center Certified Coaching is ideal for:

  • Professional executive and life coaches looking to expand their skills and add new depth to their coaching
  • Individuals looking to start a coaching practice
  • Those who would like to be able to provide support to family and friends dealing with a wide range of issues
  • Field Center Certified Facilitators looking to add to their skills through continuing education
  • People who would like to become better listeners, thinkers, and communicators
  • Anyone genuinely committed to self-improvement and ready to experience change for the better

What CCT Includes
Here's what you'll receive when you enroll in the CCT program:

  • Four months of weekly training via the Field Center phone bridge conducted by Philip Golabuk, founder of the Field Center and creator of both the Course and the CCT curriculum, leading to certification
  • Copies of all current Audio CD Series titles in the Online Store at the time of enrollment
  • Unlimited email support during the four-month session
  • Upon successful completion of the program, all the benefits of certification including:
    • a signed, frameable certificate from the Field Center
    • resources for starting your Coaching practice including brochure, web page, letter, and flyer
    • use of the FCCC logo to display Field Center affiliation
    • listing in the Field Center web site FCCC directory
    • FCCC web site/page assessment and recommendations
    • ongoing support from the Field Center

The CCT Curriculum
CCT involves 16 weeks of fast-paced, highly practical instruction in the art of coaching others using principles drawn directly from Field training. Here's an overview of the subjects covered each week:

— The Basics

  • Introduction to Field Coaching
  • Terms of Practice
  • Radical Respect for the Client
  • No Agenda
  • The Power of Belief
  • Alignment: Making Friendlier Choices
  • Radical Responsibility and Unwitting Choice
  • Boomerangs of Correspondence
  • The Role of Emotion
  • On Stance
  • A Word About the Socratic Method
  • Ontological Argument
  • Immersion and Surfacing

— The Conversation

  • The Conversation Starts Here
  • Informal Logic: The Foundation
  • Implication, Arguments, and Soundness
  • Recognizing Assumptions and Implications
  • Working with Assumptions and Implications
  • Common Fallacies
    • Fallacies of Ambiguity
    • Fallacies of Relevance
    • Fallacies of Presumption
    • Selective Definition
    • The I-Know (What I Don’t Know)
    • The I-Don't-Know (What I Know)
    • Begging the Question
    • The Great Exception
    • The Conjured Authority of the Past
    • Responsibility Deficiency (The Not-I)
    • Responsibility Excess (The Only-I)
    • Checked
  • Reductio ad Absurdum
  • Retro-Proving
  • The Ontological "Therefore"
  • Other Things to Look For

— Practice

  • Supervised Coaching with Notes
  • Terms of Practice Review
  • Field Coaching Resources

We offer CCT twice a year, during the Spring and Fall Sessions. This year, we've also included CCT in the Summer schedule. Enroll now to ensure your place in the next class, and begin a deeply rewarding career as a Field Center Certified Coach.

Interested in becoming a Field Center Certified Facilitator? Click here.

 
 


Read Before You Register

Please read both the Terms of Study and the Terms of Practice before you register for CCT to be sure that you understand the requirements.

Terms of Study
We've established terms of study to ensure that all students get the most out of CCT. By enrolling, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to abide by these Terms of Study:

1. Students must call in each week on a landline phone. Cell phones and Internet phones such as Skype are not acceptable as they are likely to cause disruptions on the phone bridge.

2. Each student should arrange to call the bridge a minute or two before the start of class each week and be free to stay the entire hour. Coming to class more than ten minutes late or leaving the call early counts as an absence.

3. Students who miss more than three meetings during the four-month session for any reason cannot receive certification with the rest of their group at the end of training. With permission of the director, they still can complete the training and receive certification by attending the the next convening class of CCT, contingent upon successful demonstration of the skills and depth of responsibility and commitment expected of all CCT students, with no further absences during the make-up meetings. Note that this opportunity is extended to students who missed three or more meetings only for the session immediately succeeding the one for which they registered originally, after which it will be necessary for them to re-enroll in CCT in order to  complete the training and receive certification.

4. Tuition must be paid in full prior to the start of the session unless other arrangements have been made.

5. All students of the Field Center are required to maintain an attitude of respect for the instructor and their fellow students, and to refrain from polemics, sarcasm, profanity, and any other inappropriate forms of expression throughout the training. The failure to honor this requirement may result in loss of access to the phone bridge.

6. Upon successful completion of the training, the CCT student receives certification, which entitles him or her to practice as a Field Center Certified Coach (FCCC). Please note that certification does not qualify or entitle the student to teach Field training, to act in the role of Facilitator, or to present the principles or practices of the Field Center Course or CCT in any form. CCT materials are copyrighted and should be regarded as confidential. Questions about Field training from clients should be referred to the Field Center. The Center does not endorse, aurhorize, or allow the dissemination of Course content, the CCT curriculum, or other proprietary material by any third party in any form, e.g., books, workshops, tapes, blog posts or other writings, etc. Please note that the failure to abide by this condition may result in suspension or rescinding of certification.

Terms of Practice
FCCCs are bound by the following Terms of Practice:

1. The FCCC may refer to himself or herself only as a “Field Center Certified Coach” or “Certified Coach” but not as a “Certified Field Center Coach” or other such variations that may be ambiguous or imply direct Field Center staff affiliation. FCCCs may not use the term “Field training” on a web site, in marketing materials, etc. in describing their practice, since only the Field Center offers Field training.

2. FCCCs may not not teach Field theory, the Field Center Course, the CCT program, or other Field Center programs, or otherwise assume a teaching role formally or informally, but act solely as a Coach as defined in the training, Coaches may not act as Facilitators, as Facilitating requires different training than Coaches receive..

3. FCCCs may not copy or reproduce content from the Field Center web site, or reproduce or distribute copyrighted Field Center materials or programs for any purpose in any medium.

4. FCCCs may produce their own marketing materials, but must submit them to the Field Center for review and approval prior to disseminating them. Any materials FCCCs produce may not include excerpts from the Course or other Field Center programs. FCCCs agree not to make public any materials Ithey have produced that the Field Center disallows for any reason.

5. FCCCs may use the FCCC logo freely as an identifying graphic asset, but may not use the Field Center logo.

6. FCCCs agree to abide by the standard of radical respect for all who come to them for Coaching by never divulging to any third party information shared in a session that might in any way identify those whom they have coached.

7. As honoring these Terms of Practice is a requirement of FCCC status and ongoing support and benefits from the Field Center, FCCCs understand and accept that the failure to honor these terms may, if the issue cannot be resolved otherwise, constitute grounds for suspension or in extreme cases revocation of their certification at the discretion of the Field Center, and that these Terms of Practice as well as FCCC programs may be revised or amended from time to time to improve the program as the Field Center deems fit.

The terms above are spelled out so that everyone is clear at the outset on what the commitment involves. Our commitment is to do our part tirelessly to guide and support you through this unique and remarkable training, so that you can enjoy a new depth of fulfillment and enrichment in your own practice, and also become a resource that the Field can use to help others come to the wonderful realization of self-as-creator.